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An American software developer and solopreneur living in Cape Town, South Africa.
http://www.coryzue.com
Author/creator here. I just released an MIT-licensed version of SaaS Pegasus - a proprietary Django starter codebase I've been maintaining nearly full-time for the last 7 years. Hoping to make it the best way to start new Django projects. If you're a Django dev, give it a look and let me know if you have any feedback!
This is cool! The UI is very slick. I made lifeweeks.app around this time last year, and have wanted to add more future-facing stuff ever since. There's some fun ideas in here I might "borrow" :)
I tried to figure out ideas for monetizing lifeweeks when it blew up, but I just don't think there is much money in apps like this. Maybe if you can do something around physical products, e.g. posters or something and take a cut or affiliate. But I think these apps just don't have the shape of something that people think they should pay for. Would be happy to be proven wrong though!
https://www.coryzue.com/ mostly a blog about my indie hacking journey with a slice of life and parenting mixed in
They say in the docs that they want Django support before the official release.
Django! Literally owe my career to it and still enjoy using it daily.
thanks for this! just expanded on a bit and published a write up here so it's easier to find in the future: https://www.coryzue.com/writing/cloudflare-dns/
This is hilarious! Strong geocities vibes.
As I wrote in the post, that is definitely part of it for me. Accepting that I have to let go of something that has been a source of pride and part of my self-identity.
As I said in the post, whether or not you believe it's coming (which I am somewhat agnostic on) it's worth taking seriously because the probability is definitely not zero. It's worth listening to how some of the people on the forefront of the research/commercial AI developments talking about it. E.g. Dwarkesh podcast.
Surfing is my favorite forced separation from devices
It would be really nice to incorporate the world events in a list of select which ones made an impact in your life.
You can do this! Just click "customize" on the world events and then you can modify freely
As a follow up you can now edit/delete world events by copying them to your timeline.
Just updated it to allow empty headlines. Still working on the other two but making progress on #2...
Just added the ability to copy the world events to your timeline (click "customize"). Then you can then modify/delete them like any other event. As for adding events, you can always create those like you would any other event. Hope that helps!
You can now edit world events! Click "customize" and then confirm and they will be copied directly to your timeline. Then you can delete or add additional commentary to any of them.
Eep, thanks! Fixed it.
Showed her this thread and she was pleased.
I like this idea, though I'm unclear on the implementation. Do you have a sense how it'd work visually? Like divide the boxes into multiple color slices if there are overlaps?
These are great suggestions, thanks! I'll take a crack at them soon and report back.
What do you mean by new emojis?
Thanks! That was a last minute change suggested by my wife
On my list to make this more customizable! Will update soon
Unfortunately, I built it with the help of a priority codebase so can't open source it at the moment, but might be able to eventually if I can pare it down.
Wider cells are just to fit the text. Every cell should be a week, unless there are two events in the same week, which then get split out.
I do. But that's also the point of the app. Life is finite!
Unfortunately, I built it with the help of a priority codebase so can't open source it at the moment, but might be able to eventually if I can pare it down.
In the meantime, I'll try to be super responsive to feedback. Editing/adding collections is high on my list!
Yes, definitely planning to add this! Just didn't make the cut for the MVP
I just added an embedding option. It's not documented yet, but you can view the source of my own site to see how it works. In terms of styling, it currently only supports specifying the background color (color or hex code) via url param.
This is the relevant source code. The only somewhat complicated bit is dynamically setting the height via messages:
<section class="section"> <div class="container"> <iframe id="life-timeline" src="https://lifeweeks.app/embed/life/czue/?bg=white" frameborder="0" width="100%" scrolling="no" ></iframe> </div> </section> <script> window.addEventListener('message', function(e) { if (e.data.type === 'resize') { document.getElementById('life-timeline').style.height = e.data.height + 'px'; } }); </script>
Yes! Well, I think you could throw it in an iframe, but I'll play around with it and create an embeddable view that looks better.
After I saw Gina Trapani's "Life in Weeks" last week I got the idea that letting anyone make one would be a cool product. I've been working on this off and on for the last week, and have gotten it good enough where I'm ready to get feedback. You can add "Periods" (colors) as well as "Events" to your timeline. You can also record longer details that show up on hover, automatically add world events, and export/import the entire thing to a file.
Happy to answer any questions about the app or build any feature requests in near-real time!